Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, December 21 Are you interested in getting mycheer.com mycheers.com $15 each. You can use them for anything you want. Last day. ____________________________________________________ Today, December 21 in  1945 U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.  ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award:  Kansas teen arrested in deadly drive-by shooting  __________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. --- Stephen King (1947 - ) What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. --- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881 _______________________________________________ Husband and Wife are Christmas Shopping at a busy shopping mall just before Christmas. The wife suddenly noticed that her husband was missing and as they had a lot to do, so she called him on his cell. The wife said "Where are you, you know we have lots to do." He said "You remember the jewelers we went into about 10 years ago, and you fell in love with that diamond necklace? I could not afford it at the time and I said that one day I would get it for you?" Little tears started to flow down her cheek and she got all choked up "Yes, I do remember that shop." she replied. "Well I am in the gun shop next door to that." ________________________________________________`   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Benjamin Mason, 18, Coffeyville, Kansas  Kansas teen arrested in deadly drive-by shooting  A Coffeyville teenager has been arrested in a deadly drive-by shooting. Benjamin Mason, 18, was arrested as his home Sunday afternoon for first degree murder. 19-year-old Kimberly Meeks was shot to death as she walked in Independence Saturday evening. Witnesses said Meeks and a man were walking along Main Street when someone fired shots from a passing car. Meeks died at the scene. The man with her ran from the scene. Investigators have not revealed a motive for the shooting. 
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 Irving goes into a restaurant and orders potato latkes. When they come, he complains that they do not look good and he changes his order to blintzes. After he eats the blintzes, he stands up and starts to leave the restaurant. "Wait a second," the manager shouts after him. "You have not paid for your blintzes." "What are you talking about?" Irving says. "Those blintzes were an even exchange. I gave you the potato latkes for them." "Yes," says the manager, "but you did not pay for the latkes either." "Why should I pay for them?" asks Irving. "I didn't eat them." 
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 The temporary Sunday School teacher was struggling to open a combination lock on the supply cabinet. She had been told the combination, but couldn't quite remember it. Finally she went to the pastor's study and asked for help. The pastor came into the room and began to turn the dial. After the first two numbers, he paused and stared blankly for a moment. Finally, he looked serenely heavenward and his lips moved silently. Then he looked back at the lock, and quickly turned to the final number, and opened the lock. The teacher was amazed, "I'm in awe at your faith, pastor." "It's really quite simple." he mumbled to himself. "The number is on a piece of tape on the ceiling." 
 What's the Heirloom Christmas Book about? It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved. You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions "bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi'," but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers, probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put them all together into one e-book. This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that should be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format, you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the CD with family pictures and other keepsakes, making it a true heirloom. I have produced a smaller version last year. This final edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the price down to the same $10. The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice Christmas gift!  Click on the book cover to get your copy or click on Heirloom Christmas Book http://webby.com/cb You can download it and give the file as a gift! ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Paint Clean Up Don't mess around with cleaning brushes and paint tools inside your home. Take them directly outside, being careful not to drip inside the house, and clean them on your lawn with a hose. If your paint is not water based, you can still save yourself a mess by cleaning up outside or in your garage.  Thriftyfun.com also has a newsletter. If you want more than just one tip per day, or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here: ThriftyFun ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ The teacher asked little Johnny, "Can you name four shooting stars?" Little Johnny said, "I sure can. Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, and John Wayne." ___________________________________________________ Where did I come from? Do asked dad where they came from. Dad squirmed a bit, but thought it was time for the facts of life. So, Dad told of how the expression of love resulted in the beginning of life, how life developed and finally how a child was born. As Dad told the story, Do's eyes got wider and wider. When Dad was finished, Do said, "Wow, that's really neat. That sure beats what Billy told me. He said that he came from Chicago." ___________________________________________________ Rachel spends a lot of time thinking about the hereafter . . . she goes somewhere to get something and then wonders what she's here after. __________________________________________________ 
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 Today December 21 in 1620 The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA. 1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium. 1913 Arthur Wynne published a new "word-cross" puzzle in the "New York World" in England. The name was later changed to "crossword." 1914 Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Mack Swain appeared in the first six-reel, feature-length comedy. The film was entitled "Tillie's Punctured Romance". 1925 Eisenstein's film "Battleship Potemkin" was first shown in Moscow. 1937 Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." 1944 Horse racing was banned in the United States until after the end of World War II. 1945 U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident. 1948 The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declared its independence. 1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. The craft landed safely in the Pacific Ocean on December 27. 1971 The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as secretary-general. 1978 Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing. 1988 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack. 1990 In a German television interview, Saddam Hussein declared that he would not withdraw from Kuwait by the UN deadline. 1991 Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States. 1995 The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control. 1996 After two years of denials, U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules. 1998 A Chinese court sentenced two dissidents to long prison terms for attempting to organize an opposition party. A third man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on December 22, 1998. 1998 The first vaccine for Lyme disease was approved. 2001 The Islamic militant group Hamas released a statement that said it was suspending suicide bombings and mortar attacks in Israel. 2002 Larry Mayes was released after spending 21 years in prison for a rape that he maintained that he never committed. He was the 100th person in the U.S. to be released after DNA tests were performed. 2019 Do smiled. 

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